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Judith Brouwer, Levenstekens. Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672
No full textJudith Brouwer, Levenstekens. Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672 (Dissertatie Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 2013; Hilversum: Verloren, 2014, 352 pp., isbn 978 90 8704 405 3)
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman talks about her experience as a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, her work translating poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, learning Spanish, translating poems from Spanish, and her book "Retrofitting Blade Runner". Kerman is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Schrijven over individuen en hun omstandigheden : hedendaagse biografieën over vroegmoderne lieden
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman reads selected poems, including the English translation of poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, and answers questions from audience. Kerman is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Jeanne Drewes. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library
Levenstekens: Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672
No full textSeldom has the future appeared so bleak as for the inhabitants of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in 1672, the Year of Disaster. This is revealed by letters written to family members and husbands overseas that were intercepted by British war ships. Dutch Studies specialist Judith Brouwer will be awarded a PhD for an analysis of post sent in the Disaster Year that never arrived. The letters provide a very valuable insight into the daily lives and how life was perceived by women, mainly from the province of Holland, in the Disaster Year. What is remarkable is that the lower social classes in 1672 were very interested in political news and had access to newspapers. Brouwer will be awarded a PhD by the University of Groningen on 12 September. War and post The year 1672 was not the best year to be posting letters to the East or West Indies. The Republic of the Seven United Provinces was at war with France, England and the sees of Cologne and Münster. At sea it was mainly British privateers who captured ships from the province of Holland and prevented the post ever arriving at its destination. Such practices were a normal part of how war was waged at the time. Ships were sold at public auction as soon as it had been established that they had been legitimately captured. The letters were kept because they functioned as proof for determining legitimacy. In some cases, captured post was sold back to citizens of the province of Holland, but most of the letters got no further than London (and eventually ended up in the National Archives) and would never reach their addressees. Newspapers and news Brouwer discovered that the letter-writers made extensive use of newspapers. Brouwer: ‘We never knew that people from the lower social classes also made conscious use of newspapers. We knew that merchants did, of course, but even the wives of seamen were interested in the available “news sheets” and read them too.’ About half of the letters investigated by Brouwer were written by sailors’ wives. Sometimes they sent a paper too, which is proof that these sources of information were accessible to them. We know that the oldest papers in the province of Holland were certainly circulating by 1618, and were available in cafés and often shared by several readers. The relationship was reciprocal, incidentally – the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant, for example, published extensive maritime information. Letters The uncertainty that was linked to war resulted in more people sending letters, and the conflict was often referred to in the letters. Some letter-writers sent newspapers to their addressees to keep them as informed as possible. Illiterate people also sent letters – they could make use of the services of a literate family member, acquaintance or a professional letter-writer. Sources where the ordinary people themselves can speak are very rare from this period. Brouwer: ‘The letters are unique because they reflect the personal world of the letter-writer. They are the first significant source that can bring us so close to ordinary people from the seventeenth century.’ Gripping The personal correspondence sometimes conjures up a gripping lively picture of the daily lives of women whose husbands were posted overseas for a very long time. Brouwer mentions the example of a woman complaining in a letter to her husband in Batavia about the dictatorial behaviour of her father-in-law, who is mistreating the children and has accused her of theft. ‘She really wanted to go to Batavia, but that was no easy matter due to the war. What makes this a good example is that I have been able to ascertain from other sources that she was in Batavia a few years later, so apparently she made it.’ The letters confirm the seventeenth-century image of the Holland woman as independent and enterprising, and who also calls a spade a spade. The lives of sailors’s wives was definitely hard and it was a constant struggle to survive. Disaster Year and De Witt The letters are a goldmine for researchers who want to know more about daily life in the uncertain times of the Disaster Year, given that the letter-writers constantly refer to it. The letters also contain important information about how citizens of the Republic viewed politically important events such as the Liberation of Groningen and the murder of the De Witt brothers. Brouwer: ‘For a long time we thought that the lowest level of the population, the mob, committed the murder. These letters, however, match new insights that it was the bourgeoisie who were responsible.
Levenstekens:Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672
No full textSeldom has the future appeared so bleak as for the inhabitants of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in 1672, the Year of Disaster. This is revealed by letters written to family members and husbands overseas that were intercepted by British war ships. Dutch Studies specialist Judith Brouwer will be awarded a PhD for an analysis of post sent in the Disaster Year that never arrived. The letters provide a very valuable insight into the daily lives and how life was perceived by women, mainly from the province of Holland, in the Disaster Year. What is remarkable is that the lower social classes in 1672 were very interested in political news and had access to newspapers. Brouwer will be awarded a PhD by the University of Groningen on 12 September. War and post The year 1672 was not the best year to be posting letters to the East or West Indies. The Republic of the Seven United Provinces was at war with France, England and the sees of Cologne and Münster. At sea it was mainly British privateers who captured ships from the province of Holland and prevented the post ever arriving at its destination. Such practices were a normal part of how war was waged at the time. Ships were sold at public auction as soon as it had been established that they had been legitimately captured. The letters were kept because they functioned as proof for determining legitimacy. In some cases, captured post was sold back to citizens of the province of Holland, but most of the letters got no further than London (and eventually ended up in the National Archives) and would never reach their addressees. Newspapers and news Brouwer discovered that the letter-writers made extensive use of newspapers. Brouwer: ‘We never knew that people from the lower social classes also made conscious use of newspapers. We knew that merchants did, of course, but even the wives of seamen were interested in the available “news sheets” and read them too.’ About half of the letters investigated by Brouwer were written by sailors’ wives. Sometimes they sent a paper too, which is proof that these sources of information were accessible to them. We know that the oldest papers in the province of Holland were certainly circulating by 1618, and were available in cafés and often shared by several readers. The relationship was reciprocal, incidentally – the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant, for example, published extensive maritime information. Letters The uncertainty that was linked to war resulted in more people sending letters, and the conflict was often referred to in the letters. Some letter-writers sent newspapers to their addressees to keep them as informed as possible. Illiterate people also sent letters – they could make use of the services of a literate family member, acquaintance or a professional letter-writer. Sources where the ordinary people themselves can speak are very rare from this period. Brouwer: ‘The letters are unique because they reflect the personal world of the letter-writer. They are the first significant source that can bring us so close to ordinary people from the seventeenth century.’ Gripping The personal correspondence sometimes conjures up a gripping lively picture of the daily lives of women whose husbands were posted overseas for a very long time. Brouwer mentions the example of a woman complaining in a letter to her husband in Batavia about the dictatorial behaviour of her father-in-law, who is mistreating the children and has accused her of theft. ‘She really wanted to go to Batavia, but that was no easy matter due to the war. What makes this a good example is that I have been able to ascertain from other sources that she was in Batavia a few years later, so apparently she made it.’ The letters confirm the seventeenth-century image of the Holland woman as independent and enterprising, and who also calls a spade a spade. The lives of sailors’s wives was definitely hard and it was a constant struggle to survive. Disaster Year and De Witt The letters are a goldmine for researchers who want to know more about daily life in the uncertain times of the Disaster Year, given that the letter-writers constantly refer to it. The letters also contain important information about how citizens of the Republic viewed politically important events such as the Liberation of Groningen and the murder of the De Witt brothers. Brouwer: ‘For a long time we thought that the lowest level of the population, the mob, committed the murder. These letters, however, match new insights that it was the bourgeoisie who were responsible.
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Cwbr Author Interview: Sex And The Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, And The Making Of American Morality
No full textInterview with Judith Giesberg, author of Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality Interviewed by Tom Barber Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with Judith Giesberg, Professor of History at Villanova Un...
Judith Butler, race and education
No full textThis book provides an analysis of race and education through the lens of the work of Judith Butler. Although Butler tends to be best known in the field of education for her work on gender and sexuality, her work more broadly encompasses the functioning of power and hegemonic norms and the formation of subjects, and thus can also be applied to analyse issues of race. Applying a Butlerian framework to race allows us to question its ontological status, while considering it a hegemonic norm and a performative notion which has a significant impact on real lives. The author considers the implications of Butler’s thinking for debates; addressing diverse contemporary educational issues in which race continues to be (re)produced, such as the formation of leaner identities, the production of the good citizen, raising student aspirations, counter terrorism and surveillance in education, and qualitative research in education
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